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To: qua; kosta50

I believe that kosta was referring to this statement of yours:

"The devil has devised an ingenious system that prevents repentance, at least in the natural sense."

Like kosta, I found it hard to find another explanation for this statement other than to say that the Orthodox Church is a "devil's system."

If you mean to retract or restate what you really meant, that's fine.

But the point remains that it is really quite remarkable that the fruit of the work of the divinely inspired Apostles of Christ was for the faith to disappear after the end of the writing of the NT, only to be rediscovered 1500 years later in Northern Europe in the wake of the Renaissance.

But we digress. My main concern is still to learn exactly how it is that Orthodox Christianity (not Origen's speculations) is not a Scriptural faith, but rather a thinly veiled pagan Greek philosophy. Which is why I ignored the "devil" comment, since it is an unprofitable rabbit trail to follow.



4,301 posted on 04/02/2006 10:22:56 PM PDT by Agrarian
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